Darryl Owens | House bill aims to help nonviolent felony offenders

2:52 AM,
Nov. 24, 2013

Rep. Darryl Owens

Written by

Darryl Owens
| Special to The Courier-Journal

Most of us wake up every day with a sense of purpose. We have an office to go to, classes to attend, volunteer duties at our children's schools. We may have to swing by our polling place to cast a vote, stop by the bank to complete that home loan application or pick up our best suit from the cleaners for a great new job.

But 95,000 Kentuckians cannot perform these tasks because they live under the economic death sentence caused by their conviction of a Class D felony.

They may have committed that low-level, non-violent transgression last year, five years ago, even a decade or two ago, but time doesn't ...